Staunton spectator. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1849-1896, 1887-11-09

lGS anu gone GO iccuiuS S"ino Aoh h'ink
go to the ant, thou sluggart, consider he
ways and be wise, which, having no over
seer or guide, provideth her food in tn
summer and gathereth her meat in tn
harvest" The devil does not so often at
lack The man who is busy with the pen, ant
the book, and the trowel, and the saw, ant
the hammer. He is afraid of those weap
ons, But woe to that man whom this roar
ing lion meets with his hands in his pock
cts. Do not demand that your toll alway'
be elegant and cleanly and refined Their.
s ce rtain amount of drudgery throug'
which we must all pass, whatever be oul
occupation. You know how men are sen
| fenced, certain number to years ofpriaon,
| and after they have suffered and ,workeo
| out the time, then they are allowed to g
| free. And so it is with all of us. Got
passed on us the sentence "By the swea'
Of thy brow shalt thou eat bread" We
| must endure our time of drudgery,s aDo
then, after while, we will be allowed t.,
go into comparative Liberty We Dase Sbt
willing to endure the sentence. We al
,now what drudgery is connected with the
beginning of any trade or profession, but
this does not continue all our lives, if it bt
the students, or the merchants or the me-
chanic's life. / know you have at the be-
ginning many hard time, but after a
while these things will become easy. You
will be your own master. Gods sentence
will be satisfied. You will be discharged
from prison. Bless God that you have .
brain to think, and hands TO work, and feet
TO walk with, for IN your constant activity
O, young man, is one of your strongest de-
fences Put your trust in God and do your
level best. That child had il right when
the horses ran away with the load of wood
and he sat upon it. When asked if he was
not frightened, he said "No, prayed to
God and hung on like beaver"
Again, profound respect for the Sabbath
will be to the young man powerful pre-
servative against evil. God has thrust into
the toll and fatigue of life recreative day,
when the soul is especially to be fed. 1t is
70 new-fangled notion of wild-brained
reformer, but an institution established at
the beginning. God has made natural and
moral laws so harmonious that the body as
well as the soul demands this institution
Our bodies are seven-day clocks, that must
be wound up as often as that, or they will
run down. Failure must come sooner or
later to the man who breaks the Sabbath
Inspiration has called it the Lords Day,
md he who devotes it to the world is guilty
# robbery God will not let the sin go un-
punished either in this world or the world
70 come. This is the statement of man
WHO had broken this divine enactment:
I was engaged in manufacturing on the
Lehigh river. On the Sabbath | used to
rest, but never regarded God in it. One
beautiful Sabbath, when the noise was all
iushed, and the day was all that loveliness
.nuld make it, l sat down on my piazza aud
- oh,
neither stopped to eat nor drink till the
sun went down. By that time l had the
INVENTION completed. The next morning
exhibited it, boasted of my days work.
md was appauded. The shuttle was tried
md worked we'll, but that Sabbath davis
ork cost me thirty thousand dollars. We
,ranched out and enlarged, aud the curse of
heaven was upon me from that day on ward. F"
While the divine frown must rest upon
i'm who tramples upon this statute, God 8
special favor will be upon that young man
sho scrupulously observes it. This day,
properly observed, will throw a hallowed in
duence over all the week. The song. and
ermon, and sanctuary will hold back from
Jresumptuous scenes. That young man
sho begins the duties of life with either
4cret or open disrespece of the holy day, |
enture to prophesy, will meet with no
prominent successes. Gods curse will fall
,pon his ship, his store, his Office, his
tudo, his body and his soul. The way of
he wicked He turneth upside down. In
me of the old fables it was said that a won
lerful child was born in Bagdad, and a
magician could hear his footsteps six thou
,and miles away. But l can hear in the
ootstep of that young man, on his way to
he honse of worship this moroipg, the step
rot only of lifetime of usefulness, but the
:"ming step of eternal joys Of heavens yet
millions of miles away.
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.ec,ation of approximating to it will infal
IDLY advance. The artist completes in his
mind the great thought that he wishes to
transfer to the canvas or the marble before
he takes up the erayon or the chisel. The
arthitect plans out the entire structure be
fore he orders the workmen to begin. and
though there may for long while seem to
be nothing but blunderipg and rudeuess be
mas in his mind every Corinthian wreath.
and Gothic arch and Byzantine capital.
Toe poet arranges the entire plot before he
oegins to chime tie first canto of tingling
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